Drunken Hastings man finds place to stay -- jail -- after mom locks him out of house

HASTINGS, MI -- A drunken, belligerent Hastings man, locked out of his mother's house because he "vomited all over the home," wound up in the Barry County Jail after he was warned twice by police to stop shouting profanities, authorities said.

Police responded about 12:30 a.m. on April 5 to an East Grand Street home after a 24-year-old man called dispatchers and, while admitting he was drunk and cussing at police dispatchers, asked officers to come to the home.

When Hastings officers arrived, the learned the man's mother had locked him out of the house for vomiting all over. The man yelled profanities while talking with police, but ended up walking away after his mother gave him some socks and boots.

Later, as police responded to an unrelated incident in the same general area, the 24-year-old came down a sidewalk and approached officers. He began to argue with them, again about being locked out of the home.

Because he had been warned earlier about being too loud, officers arrested the man for disorderly conduct and he was taken to jail.